Dilbert, Data Quality, Rabbits, and #FollowFriday
For truly comic relief, there is perhaps no better resource than Scott Adams and the Dilbert comic strip. Special thanks…
Worthy Data Quality Whitepapers (Part 3)
In my April 2009 blog post Data Quality Whitepapers are Worthless, I called for data quality whitepapers worth reading. This…
A Sunday’s Worth of Numbers: Data Analytics on the Airwaves
Three intriguing data analytics-related stories turned up recently on two radio shows, on one Sunday. Honestly—what are the odds? First,…
Which came first, the Data Quality Tool or the Business Need?
This recent tweet by Andy Bitterer of Gartner Research (and ANALYSTerical) sparked an interesting online discussion, which was vaguely reminiscent…
The Idea of Order in Data
As I explained in my previous post, which used the existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to explain the existence of…
Hell is other people’s data
I just read the excellent blog post Data Migration – and existentialist angst by John Morris, which asks the provocative…
Data Quality View: The Cassandra Effect
Data Quality (DQ) View is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-View is a brief video discussion of a data quality…
Selling the Business Benefits of Data Quality
In his book Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, Seth Godin used many interesting case studies of effective…
Data Mining: A new weapon in the fight against Medicaid fraud
On Friday July 16, US Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sibelius arrived in…
Why Questions are Becoming More and More Popular in the Social Realm
Yahoo! Answers and Answers.com have been around since 2005. But community question answering (as distinct from question answering using natural…
